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Microsoft has released the much awaited Windows 7 RC to public

Posted by sudhirmangla May 20, 2009

Finally, finally Microsoft has released the much awaited Windows 7 RC to public. No download limit, no speed limit, so download whenever and wherever you want. Just goto following link and start downloading Windows 7 RC: Download Windows 7 RC Build 7100 Alternate Link The download is available in ISO format, so you’ll need to burn the image. Windows 7 RC will expire on March 1, 2010. At this time the system will reboot every two hours. The license of windows 7 RC will expire June... Read more »

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Microsoft To Start Shipping Windows 7 In September 2009

Posted by sudhirmangla March 9, 2009

Microsoft could have Windows 7 on shipping PCs by September, Compal president Ray Chen said today at an investor’s conference. The PC contractor executive understands from plans that the software should be available in either late September or early October. The news would corroborate word of an April release candidate that would let Microsoft finish, manufacture and deliver Windows 7 well ahead of the holidays. Compal builds systems on behalf of Acer, HP and other major PC makers. Amelia... Read more »

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Windows 7 RTM in October 2009 via Leaked Product Roadmap

Posted by sudhirmangla February 3, 2009

Windows 7 will be released to manufacturing in 2009, more precisely in the third quarter of this year, with information from a leaked product roadmap pointing to the first half of October 2009. The past week, Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, revealed the official product roadmap for Windows 7 beyond the public Beta Build 7000. Sinofsky indicated that the next development milestone for Windows Vista’s successor would be Release Candidate (RC),... Read more »

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6 things you need to know about Windows 7

Posted by sudhirmangla January 30, 2009

The Windows 7 beta from Microsoft continues to generate lots of positive buzz. In fact, the word of mouth reaction is almost the polar opposite of Vista’s. When it’s finally released, hopefully sometime this year, it may yet turn Microsoft into the Comeback Kid of software. • The beta is Microsoft’s best. I’ve worked with beta versions of Windows since Windows 95, and I don’t recall a test release that was this solid and polished. It’s not perfect – there... Read more »

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Eager Fan Campaigns for Windows 7 Release Now

Posted by sudhirmangla January 30, 2009

Earlier in the week we reported that general availability for the Windows 7 beta was set to end February 10. At the time you all seemed pretty cool with it. Plenty of time left to download, right? Turns out not everyone is so sensible. Before general availability has even ended, one eager user has started an online campaign demanding Microsoft get on with things and release the new operating system right now. Kelly Poe of Tennessee has a petition up online and is campaigning for Microsoft to “let... Read more »

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Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard: Microsoft plan a comeback

Posted by sudhirmangla January 23, 2009

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/01…eback_plan.html http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/01…html&page=2 (Here is AppleInsider, obviously a well-known Apple enthusiast site, with its own interpretation of Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7. There will be flames, but it’s worth posting "the Apple spin" – or AI’s spin, on the issue. It’s meant for lively [very lively] debate. Some interesting and controversial points are raised. Maybe AI has a point... Read more »

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Microsoft Announces Availability of Windows 7 Beta and Windows Live

Posted by sudhirmangla January 12, 2009

In a keynote address at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced the beta availability of the Windows 7 operating system as well as the availability of the latest version of the Windows Live, a suite of personal communications services and applications. “I’m thrilled to announce the availability of the Windows 7 beta, which is on track to deliver simplicity and reliability,” Ballmer said. “Windows 7 and Windows... Read more »

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Windows 7 surprise: DivX built in

Posted by sudhirmangla January 7, 2009

No more trawling the web for the latest media codecs. Windows 7 comes ready to play all your favourite "downloaded" videos. One of the new features announced at the recent Windows 7 Reviewer’s Workshop in LA is that Windows 7 will natively support a number of popular media formats, so that users don’t have to worry about finding, installing and downloading third-party codecs. This is an evolution in media support which is similar to the inclusion of native MPEG-2 playback in Windows... Read more »

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Windows 7 Increase Performance and Provide Optimal Use of Available Hardware

Posted by sudhirmangla January 7, 2009

Microsoft is optimizing Windows 7 in order to increase performance, and, in this context, the dispatcher lock is one of the components that has got cut off . According to the Redmond company, fewer hardware locks are synonymous with boosted parallelism, namely a new level of efficiency when it comes down to taking advantage of modern processing architectures. This is valid for Windows Server 2008 R2, namely Windows 7 Server, and, naturally, also for the Windows 7 client, since the two operating systems... Read more »

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E-mail, photo programs stripped from Windows 7

Posted by sudhirmangla September 26, 2008

Microsoft has decided that Windows 7 won’t include built-in programs for e-mail, photo editing, and movie making, as was done with Windows Vista, CNET News.com has learned. The software maker included Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Mail, and Windows Movie Maker as part of Vista, but later chose to offer separate downloadable Windows Live programs that essentially replaced those components with versions that could connect to online services from Microsoft and others. Microsoft told CNET News... Read more »

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